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Last day for the cheap Puzzler Bundle. All cosmetics, but it's 1 DBC or 10 certs. They also left double xp on all weekend (maybe because The Schnoz was broken and a bunch of folks didn't get to use it).
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My bad, today's the last day for the puzzler bundle. The Schnoz was supposed to be working for April Fool's day event time but it wasn't equippable all last week during double XP. It's working now for +20% XP, but you can also put on the christmas hats that give +50% XP. The latter aren't supposed to work so your characters shows up with a bald normal head (even NSO get a normal human head), and the loadout will revert to the basic helmet on logout/continent change but it's a way to get a boost if you're doing something that gives XP.
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There's a dev letter from the new owner's dev team, I guess: https://www.planetside2.com/news/ps2-studio-update-2024 quote:Dear Auraxians, Could be good, could be bad, hard to tell at this point since it's (presumably) new people learning how the game spaghetti code is set up. Kind of sucks that the in development sunderer reworks is slated to go so long, I had assumed it'd be done by now but I guess it got taken away from the old dev team and given to this new one. Other than that there's the new assault facility thing they're making, and then just a bunch of holiday events. I don't mind holiday events but even though someone has to work on them, it's weird that they're milestones in a development roadmap. Rexxed fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 22:27
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Rexxed posted:There's a dev letter from the new owner's dev team, I guess: This one's kind of interesting and is reassurance at least the servers will be where they're at for 2024 and that the Daybreak membership program will continue to be a thing - I was curious after the daily sales vanished a while after the purchase what the plan was for monetization and seems to be "more of the same." Population's a little lower than it was last year but there's still good blasting to be had on Emerald in prime time if you don't mind the center bases and so looks like it'll be stable for the time being.
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40 Proof Listerine posted:This one's kind of interesting and is reassurance at least the servers will be where they're at for 2024 and that the Daybreak membership program will continue to be a thing - I was curious after the daily sales vanished a while after the purchase what the plan was for monetization and seems to be "more of the same." Yeah, I'm still playing regularly, and with the addition of more west coasters and aussies and the SEA region, it seems like even after midnight there's still activity on Emerald until 4-5am when it dries up a bit.
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They're updating the PTS with a couple of things. Hopefully the oshur change is soon. I don't hate the continent as much as some folks but I wouldn't mind it going into alert like right away so we're not stuck on it for 4+ hours: https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/april-29--pts-notes-2024 Bug Fixes We made some changes to Oshur's rotation in the game: Added conditions to the continent rotation so that Oshur is not equivalent to the other Warzones and will instead come up at a reduced frequency Created a unique alert for Oshur that activates quickly to no pre-conditions so that even when Oshur appears in the rotation we can cap how long it is active for Friends list now shows the presence of friends online and displays new friends Outfit chat should work 100% of the time now after today's fix
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The test server stuff still isn't live, maybe next week or maybe not! This weekend there's a camo sale, though:
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I'm really not thrilled that this game constantly disconnects. Out of everything I play, this is literally the only game that has that issue. I'll be sitting on a point watching the countdown timer and then it will just freeze, often for 20+ seconds. If my client manages to stay connected then I'll see every player asset start teleporting into its actual place at breakneck speed, but there's always a 25% chance that it just crashes.
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May 7, 2024 02:25
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I haven't been having issues on Emerald but the connection issues seem to come and go for different servers and ISPs. I've seen some folks post on the subreddit about EU players having problems with cobalt and miller which may be a routing issue with their ISP. When I've had issues in the past sometimes it was my ISP but usually it's been some problem with the server (DDOS or something, back when the game was big enough to get noticed since it was under Sony's umbrella, I guess).
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May 7, 2024 10:46
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40% off infantry gear this weekend for Mother's Day. Doesn't include bundles so the PMC and Legion sets I'd like to get aren't really much of a sale due to having so many pieces if you buy the bundle. Still waiting for a bundle sale, although I don't think they put them into the last bundle sale either so who knows. Daily deals have been off for a couple of months, I think they've stopped doing them.
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Rexxed posted:40% off infantry gear this weekend for Mother's Day. Doesn't include bundles so the PMC and Legion sets I'd like to get aren't really much of a sale due to having so many pieces if you buy the bundle. Still waiting for a bundle sale, although I don't think they put them into the last bundle sale either so who knows. Yeah the daily deals seem to be gone - it's not a huge loss since most of the time it was random things like tires or colossus tank weapons and I'd rather have the 40% sales on targeted things, though it gets a bit quiet between those sales.
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Patch tomorrow that will change how the continents rotate. They're also bringing back the amazon prime bundles as membership bundles and adding some stuff to the store for the franchise anniversary. Fixes for the friends list and outfit chat also, apparently. https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/may-15-patch-notes-2024 quote:
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For the most part the patch was uneventful, but they added some of the Sunderer rework stuff into live by accident. Currently the Point Defense utility item is purchaseable and it drastically increases sunderer gun RoF. The first two are defense items and the point defense is utility. I'm not going to spec them since it was an accidental addition and they're sometimes bad about returning certs for things.  edit: it's only 1 cert for each of four levels and it's bugged so that it gives like 7000% fire rate or something instead of 70%. It's deployed bus battles tonight. Rexxed fucked around with this message at 00:33 on May 16, 2024 |
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The guns are incredibly scary lol For some reason my repair sundy works on others, but my ammo sundy doesn't and I can't resupply anyone. Very very odd.
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The Demilich posted:The guns are incredibly scary lol My best guess is the iteration of sunderer addons that made it from test to live had something disabled or broken or changed with ammo resupply sunderers. It wasn't supposed to be live so it's probably a bit broken. I do like the reactive armor for the defensive slot, it acts like a bunch of shield plates all over the sundy that eat shots and they're probably close to what will go live. I didn't try the shield dome because BRRRT. Anyway, here's some hilariously broken sunderer guns. It's very funny but I hope they fix it ASAP because it's a weird meta when a deployed sunderer is stronger than a colossus. The whole server being echoing BRRRT noises makes you think there's a bunch of A10 warthogs nearby or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJ-bwlMmXU The May Member's Bundle is the Deadeye helmet and fusion blade from the old amazon prime package, it's 1 DBC or 10 certs if you're a member. If you're not, a member can gift it to you for 1 DBC. There's medic banner, frame, and decal for 10 certs or 1 DBC as well. There's a new hacker type on who just makes you fall over dead as a suicide. The previous iteration used to at least throw you into the sky by bumping you with a base turret, mana turret, etc. Just dying with no information sucks and it kept me from playing more tonight.
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Sundies are going to remain broken until they get a hotfix in which is slated for next week. It's going to be a BRRT gun weekend I guess.
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In addition to the game being hosed up with deployed sunderer meta this weekend, there's the franchise 21st anniversary stuff live on the depot now: The new bundle just has these cosmetic things but it's somewhat reasonably priced as a result of not having any guns or anything:  edit: that Legacy bundle that's like $50 is probably worthwhile if you ever wanted the Perfect implants for Minor Cloak, Avoidance, and Infravision. It's expensive but they're pretty solid implants if you play a lot of characters.
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The PSForever project (Planetside 1 Emulator) is doing a 21st anniversary event as well! Their discord with all of the relevant information is here: https://discord.gg/0nRe5TNbTYoUruA4
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Oh I didn't even know there was a PS1 emulator. How does it fare to the old live servers in terms of things working?
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I hadn't played pside1 since beta but I hopped into the PSForever event today. it's been literally over 20 years so I can't say how true it is to the original, but shockingly I remembered the keybinds and had a fun time doing a little base battle. pops are low (unsurprisingly). maybe 25 people online when I was playing today which seems to be a typical-to-good number. since it's lowpop, the focus seems to be around having a fun 3-way deathmatch and less about capping bases etc. it's a fun time regardless! there's a handy guide here for setting it up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZMx1NUylVZCXJNRyhkuVWT0eUKSVYu0JXsU-y3f93BY/edit#heading=h.6m9h3db6gqgm i had some trouble with it stealing control of my desktop mouse while playing which was highly annoying but was otherwise smooth sailing getting everything set up.
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Got a 3 day suspension for stat padding. Honestly just confused, but maybe the guy who sent me hackusation tells last night reported me and they... made something up? I have no idea. I don't think I've done anything over the weekend I haven't done for the last 5 years except for the sundy weirdness but I haven't used them much and there's a lot of folks who have done nothing but that who seem to be fine.
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I'm back and it's members double xp weekend this weekend. I can only speculate as to my suspension but I think the guy who reported me for cheating (I never have, I just shot him in the head and he died fast and got upset) got someone in customer support looking at my account. Most of it is normal but on characters I don't play much, I still do missions, like on Connery, the killfeed looks weird. I've been shooting unmanned base turrets to do daily missions which I think is usually fine if you're killing 2-3 to do a mission, but when you do that for months your killfeed is just 90% turrets for a long period of time. Even though the timing is spaced out I could see how someone would think I was just spending all my time killing turrets, to pad my stats, I guess. Anyway, lesson learned, if you're doing Clandestine Operative, the fastest way is to blow up 3 enemy/unaligned turrets, but it's probably better to just hack 6 turrets and/or terminals so you're not filling up the killfeed with turrets. Likewise, Skyfire is just 6K damage done with an ESF. You can kill a turret and do half damage to another one but you can also just shoot two turrets down to 1k health with the Wyrm, one magazine each, and then don't blow them up. You can also just shoot vehicles, but late night connery is like 30 people online and the only vehicles out are sunderers which is kind of rude to blow up at low pop. Doing NSX Weapon eval with the Masamune, well, who knows. I think if it's just in among other stuff they wouldn't care, and that missions shows up a fraction of the amount of the others since it has to roll NSX Weapon eval as your A7 mission, then roll that weapon as the weapon to use. I assume that was all this was but they don't give you any information nor any way to appeal beyond making a new account to submit tickets from, so I guess just be more careful than I was. Also, if you're suspended, you can't access your account on the website where you control your subscription. Seems shady but the whole thing is stupid to begin with so I don't know.
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I never thought about doing Skyguard that way...
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Oh and I should mention that they have improved the sunderer situation. The issue is that in the last patch they added in stuff from the upcoming sunderer rework onto live by accident, but the Point Defense module was giving 1000% increased weapon RoF instead of 100% or whatever it's supposed to have. They didn't remove the offending items but they reduced Point Defense to rank 1 and capped it there for now which is a 70% increase in RoF but not bugged to be 10x higher. The main thing to note is if you see a sunderer with the green holographic plates on it, that's the new Reactive Armor defense item. The plates will eat damage before the sunderer takes damage and at the moment it seems to require explosives hitting the plates to make them turn off until their cooldown (1 minute at rank 1, 45 seconds maxed out). So you can drive up to a sundy and blast it with a basilisk and do no damage, but shoot it once with an AMR or UBGL and the plates will drop on the side you hit it and then you can shoot it normally. The deployment dome cover is also active and seems like a good way to shield troop spawns. The one thing that's kind of stuck in a weird spot is that stealth at max level used to provide cloaking. Now cloaking is moved to Utility slot instead of defense, but it exists in both places if you had a cloaked sundy loadout before the patch. I'm not sure what combination does it but I've been shot by stealthed sunderers that don't drop out of stealth as some kind of interaction between the new stuff that was put in by accident and the old stuff that's still in loadouts. Anyway those things are the main ones in now, they're still working on it and it's supposed to have an entire category for deployable items like a repair station that drops out while they're driving, but that hasn't gone in.
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Hotfix tomorrow. No, they still don't know that hotfix means you do it while the thing is live. The camo they mention is the one in the 21st franchise anniversary bundle. https://www.planetside2.com/patch-notes/may-29-pc-hotfix-2024 quote:MAY 29, 2024 - PC HOTFIX
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